Today’s genocide designation by our State Department represents a positive step – first and foremost in terms of bringing focus, clarity and urgency to the US effort to stop the ongoing genocide in Syria and Iraq.

Executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), Aram Hamparian, stated the aforesaid commenting on US Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry’s statement on Christian Genocide.

Hamparian added that, in a broader sense, this statement elevated “the American response to genocide from a political choice to a moral imperative.” 

“We are working to ensure that today’s action will serve as a wake-up call – for both Congress and the White House – that we must, as Americans, finally reject Ankara’s gag-rule against open, honest official discourse concerning the Armenian Genocide,” the ANCA Executive Director also noted.